I have SunOS4.1.4. When I run nslookup, I got error as below:

*** Can't find server name for address xx.xx.xx.xx; Not implemented.
I ping the sever xx.xx.xx.xx, it is alive. I have resolv.conf set up.

Please help!!!!

"cljlk" <cljlk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bh9jbi$eqg$1@bob.news.rcn.net...
> I have SunOS4.1.4. When I run nslookup, I got error as below:
>
> *** Can't find server name for address xx.xx.xx.xx; Not implemented.
> I ping the sever xx.xx.xx.xx, it is alive. I have resolv.conf set up.
>
> Please help!!!!

Need more info than that...

Just because the machine you have in your resolv.conf is alive doesn't mean
it is either running a named server or the named server is turned on.

Where did you get the IP for the name server you are attempting to use?

In article <bh9jbi$eqg$1@bob.news.rcn.net>, "cljlk" <cljlk@hotmail.com> writes:
> I have SunOS4.1.4. When I run nslookup, I got error as below:
> 
> *** Can't find server name for address xx.xx.xx.xx; Not implemented.
> I ping the sever xx.xx.xx.xx, it is alive. I have resolv.conf set up.
> 
> Please help!!!!
> 
> 

There is certainly an error in your /etc/resolv.conf,
should look like

domain your.domain.com
nameserver 1.2.3.4

man resolv.conf

In SunOS 4, the libc does not use the DNS resolver,
so ping works only with /etc/hosts and NIS.

man hosts
man ypmatch

-- 
Michael Tosch / Master IS/IT Support
Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland GmbH
Tel: +49 2407 575 313

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 05:44:47 GMT, "Kevin" <news@tnet.com> wrote:

>
>"cljlk" <cljlk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:bh9jbi$eqg$1@bob.news.rcn.net...
>> I have SunOS4.1.4. When I run nslookup, I got error as below:
>>
>> *** Can't find server name for address xx.xx.xx.xx; Not implemented.
>> I ping the sever xx.xx.xx.xx, it is alive. I have resolv.conf set up.
>>
>> Please help!!!!
>
>Need more info than that...
>
>Just because the machine you have in your resolv.conf is alive doesn't mean
>it is either running a named server or the named server is turned on.
>
>Where did you get the IP for the name server you are attempting to use?
>
>
You have to do smoething with the /etc/nsswitch.conf file as well, it
defines what the server should do with host group etc queries

cljlk wrote:
 > I have resolv.conf as: domain domain.com search domain.com nameserver
 > 1.2.3.4
 >
 > In SunOS4.1.4 does not have nsswitch.conf file. It exists in Solaris
 > but not SunOS. I got the IP address about a month ago.
 >
 > Please help if anyone know how to resolve the problem.


As Michael intimated, you need to know about NIS (hence his mention of
ypmatch).  The standard SunOS 4.x libc doesn't know about DNS; it does
DNS by forwarding via NIS. So you need to set yourself up as a NIS
server.  There's a hacked version of libc floating about somewhere on
the Net that does native DNS forwarding, but if I were you I'd seriously
consider upgrading to an OS that's rather more up-to-date than 4.1.4

-- 
Tony

Approximately 8/12/03 01:17, no-spam uttered for posterity:

> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 05:44:47 GMT, "Kevin" <news@tnet.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>"cljlk" <cljlk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:bh9jbi$eqg$1@bob.news.rcn.net...
>>> I have SunOS4.1.4. When I run nslookup, I got error as below:
>>>
>>> *** Can't find server name for address xx.xx.xx.xx; Not implemented.
>>> I ping the sever xx.xx.xx.xx, it is alive. I have resolv.conf set up.
>>>
>>> Please help!!!!
>>
>>Need more info than that...
>>
>>Just because the machine you have in your resolv.conf is alive doesn't mean
>>it is either running a named server or the named server is turned on.
>>
>>Where did you get the IP for the name server you are attempting to use?
>>
>>
> You have to do smoething with the /etc/nsswitch.conf file as well, it
> defines what the server should do with host group etc queries

  There *is* no nsswitch.conf file in SunOS 4.1... this is the
  old BSD based Sun operating system, not Solaris.